Rocca will work alongside nearly 30 select educators from across the country, Library of Congress education specialists and subject-matter experts to learn effective practices for using primary sources in the classroom, according to a release. She will also have the opportunity to explore some of the millions of digitized historical artifacts and documents available on the library’s website.

Rocca will then bring what she learned back to Brookfield to teach her colleagues and incorporate primary-source-based teaching strategies into the classroom.

Other participants in the program include library media specialists, administrators and classroom teachers from large, small, rural and metropolitan districts. Only one other educator, Rebecca Cochrane from Charter Oak International Academy in West Hartford, is from Connecticut.